This album contains definitive 1953 recordings of clarinetist
George Lewis who led the most authentic New Orleans jazz band. It's a
sound that led via English Skiffle groups to Rock music of the '60s.
It's a New Orleans Brass Band that's come inside to play with a full
rhythm section. It's relevant in spite of the vintage. It's Blues,
Gospel, Ragtime, Pop before Rock. It struts and it stomps. Here's the
first studio recordings of the George Lewis New Orleans Band which
toured colleges, clubs and festivals and brought the sound, later
settled-in at Preservation Hall, of jazz's first beginnings.